.DOT File

The dot file extension is associated with Microsoft Word, a powerful authoring program that gives you the ability to create and share documents by combining a comprehensive set of writing tools with the easy-to-use Microsoft Office Fluent user interface, which is part of Microsoft Office.

The dot files are used in Microsoft Word 97 to 2003 for document template files.

The .dot templates are used, when users wants to create several doc documents with same formatting.

The latest versions of Microsoft Office use the Open XML file format and the Word documents are stored in the docx files or in the template docm files.

MIME types:
application/msword
application/dot
application/x-dot
application/doc
application/microsoft_word
application/mswor2c
application/x-msword
zz-application/zz-winassoc-dot

A dot file extension is used by Microsoft Word, a word processor that is distributed as a part of Microsoft Office. A dot file contains document template (predefined document type and format). A dot file extension is used by Microsoft Word 97 to 2003.

How to open:

Use Microsoft Word to open *.dot files.

How to convert:

After you have opened *.dot template in Word, you can save it to another supported file format (DOC by default).